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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A four line stanza in a poem.






2. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






3. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






4. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






5. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






6. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






7. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






8. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






9. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






10. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






11. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






12. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






13. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






14. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






15. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






16. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






17. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






19. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






20. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






21. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






22. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






23. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






24. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






25. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






26. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






27. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






28. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






29. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






30. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






31. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






32. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






33. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






34. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






35. The selection of words in a literary work.






36. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






37. The time and place of a story or play.






38. Broken down acts.






39. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






40. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






41. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






42. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






43. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






44. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






45. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






46. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






47. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






48. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






49. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






50. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.